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SFH on Jason Leung's condition

Following is the transcript of remarks (English portion) made by the Secretary for Food and Health, Dr York Chow, on the condition of Mr Jason Leung, the tour member injured in the Manila hostage incident, at a media session after attending a radio programme this morning (October 20):

Reporter: (About Jason's latest condition)

Secretary for Food and Health: There is significant improvement in Jason's condition in the last few weeks. In particular, he is now moving out from the Intensive Care Unit to a High Dependency Unit. I think there is no immediate danger for his survival as he has no complications at all. However, because of his situation, we still think he needs to be relatively isolated from the public so that he would not get in contact with any infection risk and so on. Regarding his physical ability, he has made some improvement, particularly in his eye movement. He is able to focus and have some communications with people around him, including his mother. He can move his hands. Generally I think he is able to move his hands according to will and this is good progress.

(Please also refer to the Chinese portion of the transcript.)



Ends/Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Issued at HKT 14:57

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